Remittance envelope delivered to Swatow from Ang Buan Seng

Title
Remittance envelope delivered to Swatow from Ang Buan Seng
Year/Period
1960s–1970s
Region
Swatow, China
Object Type
envelopes
Material
paper (fiber product), ink
Technique
printing (process), handwriting
Dimension
Object size: 15.5 x 13.1 cm,
Object size: 8.0 x 5.7 cm
Accession No.
2024-00666
Collection of
Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
Credit Line
Collection of Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall

This is a Chinese remittance envelope delivered between the 1960s and 1970s, from the remittance house Ang Buan Seng/Yong Buan Seng (Hong Wan Cheng洪万成), located at 85 New Market Road. It was delivered through qiaopi (侨批), a private mail delivery system established by early Chinese immigrants in the early 19th century to deliver money and family letters to their home villages in China.

 

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